A
little snow fell on the ground, then a snowstorm started. That couldn't possibly
be any problem for companies like SL right? I mean they've had years of
experiences of the Swedish winter weather?! But I was proved wrong. Apparently
all the information that SL wrote on their website about how prepared they are
for the winter weather is false.

The
Green Line (Tub1) just couldn't take it anymore, it gave up. The snow was too
thick and it eventually covered the third rail, making it impossible to transfer
electricity from the third rail to the subway. So all traffic on the Green Line
was reduced and the loud speaker said "Oregelbunden Trafik",
approximately like irregular traffic.

Line
19 between Gullmarsplan and Hagsätra just couldn't take it anymore. All traffic
between this stretch is canceled and replaced with bus. Okay, buses, fine. But
it's better that we define SL's definition of "Bus-on-rail-service".
They think that two short buses (13 meters long, approximately 76
passengers/bus) that leaves every 10th minute is enough to serve the people on
that stretch, but oh no SL, you are wrong. The queue at Gullmarsplan was so
messy that bypassing buses had to take extra care. Fine SL, make it every 10th
minute with two short buses per time, but they can't even accomplish that! I
waited for 30 minutes on the way back at Hagsätra, and finally it came a
articulated bus, but what good does that do? How could that possibly replace 9
units of C20?

Then
there were 9 buses all stuck in the terminal at Högdalen. Why make the buses
depart at the same time? Why don't you organize some kind of timetable, making
the bus depart every 5th or 10th minute instead of making it depart every 30th
minute, but with 6 buses in the same direction???

Anyways,
the stretch stopped around 13:38 and was later ready to be back in traffic
around 19:00.

Here
are some pictures taken from yesterday (March 4th 2006)

Gullmarsplan

15:01
15:06
15:06
15:06

15:07
15:07
15:09
15:09

15:09
15:15
15:22
15:25

15:28
15:28
15:32
15:33

15:35
17:07
17:10
17:19

Hagsätra

16:10
16:38

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